Oh, the joys of working for yourself

So, I spent the weekend working in the pottery studio making new pieces for Christmas and Spring shows. Have about 24 hours of film editing still to do on various interviews, and have a huge stack of materials that need to be packaged and mailed out. Oh, the joys of working for yourself. You may have to work 18 hours / day, but you get to choose which 18! Plus, TGIF has a brand new meaning to the self-employed. It means there are only 2 days left in the work week.
Got new wareshelves put up next to the kilns so we can start loading the kilns, firing, and unloading this week. Have a huge backlog of firing to do and we’re really anxious to see how some of our color combinations will turn out.
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Lots of great shows coming up in Dallas and North Texas area over the next month. Am taking the camera and heading out to see how some of the artists are doing. Hope to get a few “5 minute” interviews to put on the website but I hate to bug an artist in the middle of a show. We’ll see how this works.
Each interview I do, I give the artist a copy of all the video so they can use it in their marketing or advertising. Plus, they get a copy of the completed video clips that appear on the website. They can use the same video clips and post on YouTube or whereever they feel.
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The Twitter and Facebook experiment is coming on strong. In the past month, I’ve picked up over 200 followers on Twitter and I’m following about 350 good artists and publications. Facebook is a little slower for me. At least with Twitter, I only have to punch in 140 characters. With Facebook, I feel like I need to write something more substantial.
I do know this though…I wish a lot of my phone calls were “Twitterized” down to 140 characters.